The New Normal, a poem written by Bruce Levine at Spillwords.com
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The New Normal

The New Normal

written by: Bruce Levine

@brucelevine19

 

The new normal
A fork in the road
Patterns dismembered
Disemboweled entities
Parades of non-sequiturs
Masquerading as normal
Without understanding why
Where or how

A broken hourglass
Sand spilled on a table
Driftwood on a beach
Formless yet beautiful
As it awaits redemption
In a time continuum
A flame in a vacuum
Extinguished without air

Eviscerated memories
In quicksand forgotten
The new normal
Tightening its grip
With tears flowing softly
On landscapes plowed under
A road yet created
A normal unknown

Bruce Levine

Bruce Levine

Bruce Levine is a 2019 Pushcart Prize Poetry nominee, a 2021 Spillwords Press Awards winner and the Featured Writer in WestWard Quarterly Summer 2021. Over three hundred of his works are published on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, Literary Yard; in over seventy print books including Tipton Poetry Journal, Halcyon Days and Founder’s Favourites and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country.
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